21 Oct
2019
21 Oct
'19
6 p.m.
Also, I only now realized that only mknod existed, up
until a long time,
only later on with the GNU coreutils did mkdir as a command come into
existence. Running the PDP-11 v7 on SIMH showed that, gotten so accustomed
to the Linux env that thinking backwards seemed suddenly arcane.
that's not true. mkdir isn't a GNU invention. Its much older.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkdir#History
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html